mask

The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funerary mask which was discovered at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in southern Greece. The mask, displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, has been described by the historian Cathy Gere as the " Mona Lisa of prehistory".[1]

A visard , also known as a vizard , is an oval mask of black velvet which was worn by travelling women in the early modern period to protect their skin from sunburn.[1] The fashion of the period for wealthy women was to keep their skin pale, because a tan suggested that the bearer worked outside and was hence poor. Some types of vizard were not

(disambiguation).

A 16th-century woman wears a visard while riding with her husband.